Christian Moerch Corporate and commercial contracts often contain references to ‘best endeavours’ and ‘reasonable endeavours’. Have you ever considered the meaning of these words? In this note...
Rule against Penalties
Christian Moerch Yiannis Efthyvoulou Under the common law, there is a rule against penalties in contracts and such clauses are unenforceable. The rule is based on public policy – a party should not ...
UK Global Entrepreneur Programme
This note focuses on The Global Entrepreneur Programme, (GEP), a venture capital programme aimed at creating global companies from start-ups, using the United Kingdom as a strategic headquarters and b...
Terminating your Contract
Businesses will need to terminate their contracts from time to time for various reasons. It is very important that you get the termination right to avoid problems. For example, if the court disagrees ...
Launching Your Business – Our Services
This note focuses on some of the legal services and general assistance that Redfern Legal can provide to your business during the various stages of launching your business and our approach. In the ear...
Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 – part 2
On 26 June 2020, the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (the “Act”) received the Royal Assent in response to the COVID-19 crisis to help companies struggling due to the pandemic. This ma...
Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020
On 26 June 2020 the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (the “Act”) received the Royal Assent in response to the COVID-19 crisis to help companies struggling due to the pandemic. This maj...
Bounce Back Loan Scheme: A loan by the government to boost small businesses affected by COVID-19
Small and medium-sized businesses hit by COVID-19 and who cannot access ordinary bank loan or other government led programme are able to benefit from a new fast-track finance scheme (BBLS). The fundin...
Future Fund access by UK government to support start-up and fast growth companies – COVID 19
The UK government has announced a new investment support program for those start-up and fast growth businesses who are in difficulties, in the form of convertible loans (also known as loan notes) amid...
COVID-19 – Force Majeure and Frustration – Relief from Contractual Commitments
The outbreak of the Coronavirus (Covid 19) pandemic in China in December 2019 has caused significant disruption at an unprecedented scale to business worldwide and businesses should carefully review t...